Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

There are silences harder to take back than words.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.