Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.