Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
Things are seldom what they seem.
As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."
Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.