È sempre bene
Il sospettare un poco in questo mondo.
Mozart, Cosi fan tutte
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
I resist what I cannot change
Own it in your own way
I wanna find what can't be found
Every act has consequences that change that world in some way, no matter how modest, and those actions will go on changing the world for millennia after we are gone. But to remember the details of every action is to invite madness, to paralyze our brains and our communities with memory.
Gavin Francis, The Dream of Forgetfulness (NYRB, March 9, 2023)
It is not a correct deduction from the principles of economics that enlightened self-interest always operates in the public interest.
John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-Faire, as quoted by Zachary D.Carter in The Price of Peace