Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.
The present necessarily betrays the past.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.
Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.