Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
You can never betray the people who are dead.
I am 46, and have been for some time past.