To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.
If you belong to the underclass, you are already guilty.
The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.
Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.