Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.
The Simple Life is not a simple life.
Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.
Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.
Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.
Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.