Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

Plato was a bore.

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.