To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.

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