Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.
Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.