There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time.
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer…