No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.
Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.
Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.
My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.
I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.
The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.