Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
If you want to write, keep cats.
A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.