Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.