“I Fed the Proverbs of Hell to GPT-3…”, 2020-09-02 (; backlinks; similar):
I fed the Proverbs of Hell to GPT-3 and it generated a bunch of new ones, so here’s my top 30 gleaming shards of neo-Blakean wisdom:
Age teaches everything, except to youth its own lessons.
Love first, measure later.
Poverty and honesty are old and honored friends.
Every one that hath a mind to do well, let him labor.
The young have too much time, the middle-age too little time, and the old just enough time.
There is no shame in being alone.
The King is as a man, and a man is no King.
Who fears flies shall quickly perish in spiders.
The young count years, the old count mistakes, the very old count both.
Contentment is riches.
The fool writes nonsense in the dust with his finger; the wise man writes lessons in the sand with his finger; the Genius writes laws in the universe with his forefinger.
The one foolish doesn’t know, and the other wise doesn’t show.
He is wise who is warned by both evils and advantages.
The heavens are not worth the earth.
What is wise in a wild beast is madness in a man.
Better keep hold of Death than lose grasp on Life.
The just man rules himself, but the wicked has already given up his sway.
To know everything is to know nothing, to imagine things beyond belief is the true wisdom.
The man with a mind for games has no mind for anything else.
By desire man becomes greater than the gods.
Two in distress can keep each other warm.
Wag more, bark less!
We never know how to value wealth until we know the person we would give it to.
The miser suffers more from avarice than the poor man from poverty.
Pride comes before the fall, and love before the end.
The child lives in dreams, the youth in promise, the old man in memories.
The sweetest honey is dried by the sun.
Actions speak louder than words, but silence is often louder still.
Sometimes a whisper is the clearest voice.
Honest is the key to all virtues
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