Life is struggle and sleep.
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.
Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.