March 25, 2021, 8:56 p.m.(3/5/1015 AR)
Pleasure, like truth, is rarely pure and rarely simple.
March 20, 2021, 11:39 p.m.(2/24/1015 AR)
Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy is often sufficient to make a person become one.
March 20, 2021, 2:15 p.m.(2/23/1015 AR)
The key to wisdom is, naturally, to ask questions frequently and assiduously.
March 4, 2021, 9:32 p.m.(1/20/1015 AR)
Politics will never about planning - it is about opportunity. This is true regardless of the political system. Politics is about human behavior and people are too irrational to fit into a plan.
March 3, 2021, 9:56 p.m.(1/18/1015 AR)
All public acts are public performances, and all public performances are part of the larger morality play of politics. Facts and the discourse upon facts is purely a private affair.
March 1, 2021, 9:32 p.m.(1/14/1015 AR)
Hierarchy is an essential part of the human condition, which means signaling status is a feature, not an aberration.
Feb. 28, 2021, 2:05 p.m.(1/11/1015 AR)
When people are prepared to cry in public, with the hope that it shall bring some advantage, the meaning of the gesture is devalued. Indeed, its sincerity will come into question, as does the sincerity of expressions of repentance when there is an obvious reward for expressing it.
Feb. 13, 2021, 11:27 p.m.(12/7/1014 AR)
Is all pleasure the scratch of some itch?
Jan. 24, 2021, 7 p.m.(10/23/1014 AR)
My sons, never forget that your experiences, good and bad, will forge your character.
Jan. 9, 2021, 11:13 p.m.(9/21/1014 AR)
In the world today, discussion about morals is a lost art.
Dec. 19, 2020, 5:28 p.m.(8/6/1014 AR)
And as that Dreamer has made me to be, do I, too, dream Her into reality?
Dec. 19, 2020, 5:27 p.m.(8/6/1014 AR)
But in that dream, I am free to do - and be - anything.
Dec. 19, 2020, 5:27 p.m.(8/6/1014 AR)
In another time, another place, another world, I exist only as a dream.
Dec. 6, 2020, 7:35 p.m.(7/9/1014 AR)
In quiet
Agony
Two or three?
Dec. 3, 2020, 4:14 p.m.(7/2/1014 AR)
An immutable truth one should recognize and understand early on is that the future belongs to the winners of today.
For better or worse.
Nov. 28, 2020, 2:04 p.m.(6/20/1014 AR)
Come to think of it, all of life, at every moment, is a test of character.
Nov. 28, 2020, 2:03 p.m.(6/20/1014 AR)
One might feel, no doubt without real reason, that by knowing the extremes of society that they have gained insight into all that lies in between. It is a little like the feeling, also without much justification, that your real character can emerge only in the most difficult circumstances. Actually, good fortune is at least as much a test of character as is ill-fortune, and probably a higher proportion fail it.
Nov. 21, 2020, 2:38 p.m.(6/6/1014 AR)
I think I want a piece of gold fashioned to go around my third toe...Or maybe silver. Silver suits my complexion.
But should I choose my left foot, or my right foot? Decisions, decisions!
Oh! Or maybe an anklet. Summer is coming, after all.
I have just made things much harder for myself.
Blushing Scholar, won't you give me your opinion?
Nov. 21, 2020, 12:22 a.m.(6/5/1014 AR)
The essential quality of life is living; the essential quality of living is change.
Nov. 21, 2020, 12:10 a.m.(6/5/1014 AR)
My chef is a true poet.
Having passed by the kitchen earlier in the day, I had the good fortune to overhear: By the piss of a fiend, this sauce is dangerous!
Oh, I do look forward to entertaining guests.
