Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

The very same fact about a thing can be both the good and the bad thing about it.

A disadvantage is often a seed of an advantage.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

We sometimes benefit way more from being lied to than the person lying to us.

We need not know the how and the why to profit from knowing the that.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.