Your vision exceeds your practicality: often the case with a musician. - Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

“Is this the conduct of a ‘sly and unpredictable villain’?”
“Decidedly so, if the villain, for the purposes of his joke, thinks to simulate the altruist.”
“Then how will you know villain from altruist?”
Cugel shrugged. “It is not an important distinction.”

If the dictators and militarists who used to start wars had to earn by manual labor what their wars cost, there would have been very few wars.