Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.
Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.
Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.