My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Fashions in sin change.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.