On what principle is it, that when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?
Man please thy maker and be merry set not for this world a cherry.
On what principle is it, that when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?
Politics… is the capacity to choose in each fleeting moment of the situation that which is least harmful or most…
Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as…
This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.