The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.
The aphorism is a slippery plaything.