If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.
Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
Language cannot say everything, fortunately.
Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.