Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Wisdom
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Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Love
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Truth
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
Wisdom
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Wisdom
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Wisdom
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Wisdom
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
Wisdom
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
Life
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
Wisdom