Under the skin we are not alike at all, and if we understood each other better would quarrel more.
May 182023
May 172023
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, no one can properly manifest more than five: Sloth, Pride, and Envy remain eternally at war.
May 162023
Intelligence does not improve one’s thoughts, but it does increase their variance.
May 152023
One should feel especially flattered by an insincere compliment.
May 122023
For every empire history offers a hundred reasons why it fell, when what we need to know is why it lasted.
May 112023
What would the penance be for having nothing to confess?
May 102023
Nothing is, ever was, or ever will be so bad it’s good.
May 092023
Retail evil-doers are often after money; wholesalers are always after something else.
May 082023
We all invent past lives — some as pharaohs and princesses, others as themselves.
May 052023
All samples are convenient, and thus no samples are random.