You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.
Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.
The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.
My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.