“A clock is kind. Unlike a mirror, it doesn’t show you how much you’ve aged.”
“It’s better to recognize what’s truly important — because someday, that importance will be tested.”
“A dictator laughs twice in his life: once when he seizes power, and once when he is no longer needed.”
“A dictator laughs twice in his life: once when he seizes power, and once when he lets it go and gives up.”
“A dictator weeps twice — at birth, and at the moment he is no longer needed.”
“A headache is a source of suffering. But the headache doesn’t care about you.”
“The government loves tobacco: they can tax it freely, and when smokers can’t smoke anymore, they vanish like smoke.”
“Truth is like cigarette smoke — impossible to grasp, vanishing before you know it.
And only smokers can taste it.”
“A lit cigarette is a sad thing — because its fate to be discarded has just begun.”
— Kouhei Takagi + ChatGPT 4o