4 Ironical in one line. As regards the optimists (the enchanted persons).

If to look into the root for a long time – there's a chance to become rooted with loss of vision.
If you work hard, you can earn a hernia, and all the work will go into the sphere of holding the hernia with both hands.
The dead leave us a field of activity, but, alas, one that disappears with the last dead person.
A woman does not strive for virtue, but on the contrary, otherwise the genus will run out.
True self-respect is possible only in the distant future, and in the near future, only natural phenomena have to be respected.
Heroism will come to everyone, if nowhere else would he be and there is the ability to push oneself.