Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.

Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

Folly always knows the answer.

Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.