Authority is conferred by position, not character.
The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.
Every work of art changes its predecessors.
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.
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.