The graceful winged elephants- the angels of kindness, intelligence, courage, patience, perserverance, knowledge, work, hope, love, health, joy and happiness- drive out the demons of misfortune, anger, stupidity, discouragement, sickness, spinelessness, despair, fear, ignorance, cowardice, and laziness. Qualities championed here are personal virtues, involving the life of the mind and the life of the individual.