Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.
Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.
Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.
Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential.
Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.