Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.
Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.