Regret leads to overeating and naps.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.

Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.

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.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.