272.We are victims and beneficiaries of our excesses, austerity and moderation.
273.Between ?could have been? and ?has been? is ? being?.
274.Jadedness is when excitement?s throbs are tempered by experience.
275.Matters past which we had derived from sources other than ourselves
is knowledge.
Matters past which we have lived through is experience.
We have knowledge and experience with us.
276.All worthy actions done were done not in vain.
277.Others know us for what we have done. We know ourselves by what we have done , what we have yet to do , what we are capable of and what we cannot do.
278.All of us devour a form of life in order to sustain our own.
279.One sometimes can have no inkling of a matter until it is one?s
turn of fortune to encounter it.
280.One?s taste can be flaunted for show but one?s show is not to
everyone?s taste.
281.Some matters serve a specific purpose while there are those which possess relevance always.