All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.
What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.
Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.
If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.
To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.