The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.

Peacetime

Life is about early detection of the reversal point beyond which your own belongings (say, a house, country house, car, or business) start owning you.

Early reversal

rephrase, every human should at all times have equality in probability (which we can control), not equality in outcome.

Equality