Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Complainers detest each other.
Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.
Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.