“The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.”

“So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered.”

“Nowhere do men remain loyal for long when Fortune proves unstable.”
Stat nulla diu mortalibus usquam, Fortuna titubante, fides.

“In all human affairs, and especially in those that relate to war, …leave always some room to fortune, and to accidents which cannot be foreseen.”

“A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.”

“Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs”

“It is not easy to remain motivated in the face of widespread apathy and self-indulgence.”

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

“Without religion − or without authentic religion − a human collectivity cannot survive in the long run; that is, it cannot remain human.”

“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”