Everything – Page 86 – A book of aphorisms
Oct 022020
 

Help whom you love, lest you love whom you help.

Sep 302020
 

Sanity is less a particular outlook than a practiced aversion to the multifarious forms of crazy.

Sep 292020
 

Recycling laws exist to remind you that your rulers, though they have nothing to charge you with, can force you to sort through your garbage.

Sep 282020
 

Thought-criminals, like regular ones, would escape punishment more often if they could manage not to boast of their exploits.

Sep 252020
 

You think your political opponents are unqualified to vote, they think the same of you, and you’re both right.

Sep 242020
 

There are men who believe in a government of laws, not men; but they are not the men who govern.

Sep 212020
 

One obtains a reputation for prophecy by predicting what is already happening that no one else has noticed.