What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.