The Bed of Procrustes

Selected aphorisms

• What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment.
• A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
• The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
• Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
• You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
• Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
• Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.
• Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
• They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box.
• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.