You have not reached the period of such empty vanity, and I have long passed it.

Let us, therefore, make our mutual vows not to be disturbed by the good luck or the good graces of others, but to continue, instead, to contemplate the contented cat on the rug and the unenvious sky that hangs over all alike.
This mood will continue to keep our lives simple.

Consider our diet.

Could anything be simpler or better?
We are not even tempted by the poisonous victuals wherewith mankind destroys itself.

The very first sound law of life is to look to the belly; for it is what goes into a man that ruins him.