Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.