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Adversity (n.) adds a final insult to its injuries: everyone assumes its victims earned whatever they got.
Boasting (n.) spends a good conscience: every bit of fame it buys is paid for out of the deed's hidden merit.
Death (n.) keeps the worst timetable: it carries off the glad, who would stay, and ignores the wretched, who keep calling for it.
Delusion (n.) is mostly amnesia: the sufferer has simply forgotten, for a while, who he is.
Evil (n.) is the riddle that cuts both ways: if God exists, where does it come from? And if he does not, where did good come from?
Exile (n.) is never purely imposed: the exile has wandered off himself, since the true homeland expels no one who still wants to live there.
Folly (n.) can loot every outpost the wise man owns except the citadel he actually lives in.
Freedom (n.) is not escape from rule but submission to the one right ruler: obeying God's law is what liberty consists in.
Goodwill (n.) is the first friend to walk out on the unlucky.
Happiness (n.) disproved by a fall was never happiness; the friends who called a man lucky were only fooled by footing that had not slipped yet.