The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.