Everything – Page 94 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 122020
 

At fifty everyone has the prose style he deserves.

Jun 052020
 

The businessman wants peace, which is good for his business; and the intellectual wants war, which is good for his.

Jun 042020
 

When intelligence is no longer required for survival, it is instead expended on ever more baroque ways of being wrong.

Jun 022020
 

The difficulty with which success imagines failure makes for hard-heartedness, and the ease with which failure imagines success makes for envy.