The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.
Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.
Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.