There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.