Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.
Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.
Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.
History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.