COLD. Healthier than heat.
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.