Announcement: Fair use warning! These aphorisms are dedicated to people who’ll laugh at least once while reading them. For those who wouldn’t laugh even once, I suggest to re-read them again. If they don’t laugh even then, they are too serious and should be reading something else.
Money & Profit Money & profit were catastrophic for previous intelligent civilizations. (Indian civilization destroyed by nuclear weapons).
Empire If you model your society after the Roman Empire, you should pay special attention to how it failed.