Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
I am not the kind of person I want to be.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.
Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.