At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?
... law is a substitute for love.
Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.
the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.
the true and the plausible are rarely the same.