The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.
Moderation shifts when extremes do.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.