We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.