Michael

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”
― Don Marquis

“You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.”
― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

“very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions—? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Frammenti postumi 1887-1888

“and before i could argue him
out of his philosophy
he went and immolated himself
on a patent cigar lighter
i do not agree with him
myself i would rather have
half the happiness and twice
the longevity

but at the same time i wish
there was something i wanted
as badly as he wanted to fry himself

From the lesson of the moth”
― Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel