Voters who go mad in national elections often recover their sanity in local ones.
Dec 052023
Dec 042023
Every city, regardless of its provisions for the poor, has always featured importunate public begging.
Dec 012023
Truth is only stranger than good fiction.
Nov 302023
Who does not publicly acknowledge his errors soon forgets that he made them.
Nov 292023
Official corruption is always friction where the regime is honest, and usually lubrication where it’s not.
Nov 282023
Many places are nice to live, but you wouldn’t want to visit there.
Nov 272023
A hunger for novelty begets a tolerance for shoddiness: the new toy, though broken, will shortly be replaced.
Nov 242023
To make a small problem vanish, turn it into a big problem.
Nov 232023
To be a danger to oneself is a contradiction, for ethical hedonists, or a tautology, for everyone else.
Nov 222023
The fault lies ever in demand and not supply.