Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
You shall above all things be glad and young.
People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.
It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.