Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I'd learned my lesson.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.