Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.
Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.
The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.
Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.
Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.