In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.