Hope is a great falsifier of truth.
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.