Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.
The transcendental promises a vacation from history.
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.