Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.