Everything – Page 55 – A book of aphorisms
Dec 172021
 

We complain to the gods that they don’t exist.

Dec 162021
 

Privacy was ephemeral, almost accidental, springing up here and there in that fleeting century between poverty and universal surveillance.

Dec 102021
 

One ought to be exercised about injustice for the bad, but not inordinately.

Dec 092021
 

A man can be confined to an institution, from which he is often released after a term; or turned into one, which is always for life.

Dec 082021
 

“To thine own self be true” is not the advice of Shakespeare, or even Hamlet, but that old windbag Polonius.