Popular Culture Is Seductive; High Culture Is

To Postpone Unpleasantness Is Human; To Forget It Is Divine.

Looking Backward At What Has Been Lost, I Feel Sad, Then Indifferent, And At Last Relieved.

As A Youth, I Sought Out Decadence; As An Elder, I Try To Avoid Decay.

The Interest In Wisdom Is Fading. Soon There Will Not Be Enough Left To Support The Aphorism, Even Though It Tries To Amuse By Half-mocking The Wisdom It Propounds.

Work Saves Us From Melancholy. Pleasure Exposes Us To It.