Never try to leap from a standstill.

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.