The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.