- ars longa, vita brevis -

hipócrates

"The truisms were, or at least were as close as I could make them to, genuine clichés... They were uniquivocal individually, but as a series, because they came from a zillion different points of view, you had a sort things out for yourself and figura out what it meant." (Jennifer Holzer)

- the sum of your actions determines what you are
- the unattainable is invariable attractive
- the world operates according to discoverable laws
- there are too few immutable truths today
- there's nothing except what you sense
- there's nothing redeeming in toil
- thinking too much can only cause problems
- threatening someone sexually is a horrible act
- timidity is laughable
- to disagree presupposes moral integrity