The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
Another occupation might have been better.
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.