Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
‎When a society is well fed, thinness denotes self-control or an ethereal abstinence that appears saintly.
‎Whatever you cannot say 'No' to is your master and makes you it's slave.
‎Failure shows us the way; by showing us what isn’t the way.
‎To circumvent overconsumption and its problems avoid the buffets of life.
‎Promising? Here’s where anyone can play rich.
‎Let wanting precede giving!
‎The world could use fewer martyrs.
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‎I do not approach her, I merely skirt the periphery of her existence....
‎****** romance might proceed by persistence, but true romance proceeds by absence.
‎Necessity never made a good bargain

By their fruits you shall know them.
‎Money has a tendency to rent women, either over the short term, like a *******, or over the long term like a divorced wife.
‎Love is the condition, in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
‎Suffering alone reveals the total significance of what is beloved.

Error and terror;
Every now and then.
The final chapter,
Is happy ever after.

Mother with the rod,
Father with reproof;
Let not your love spare for my crying.
God with consequence of choice and habit.
To leave me chained to fate, by myself.

A moment of doubt and pain
Something begins to take, once you figure it out
Patience taken by an obvious outward show
Mystery, always ends up misery
Fate, always deals a straight flush
Hollow convictions cloud the soul's yellow glow

Evil is a prerequisite to evolving for better or worse.
Evil is Live spelled backwards
The more desperate we cling to life the darker our state of mind.