Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.
Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.
To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.