Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.
A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.