Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.
People invent gods to explain their suffering.
Hope likes justification, but can do without.
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.
The only peace is being out of earshot.