Self-esteem is not based on itself.
Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.
Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.