Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

By nature we use our memory only to save things that haven't been processed yet. And not to fill with someone else's knowledge for which you need to think to retrieve it from your memory, because you have never actually processed it through experience...