It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.