The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
The human animal is a bad animal.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.