Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Reason cannot break out of its own loop.
As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.