You cook a frog by throwing it into warm water and slowly turning up the heat. This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Moscow Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears.
It seems to absolve us. It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.