People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.
As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.
The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.
Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.