All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods - moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former - but no opinion.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
