A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.