Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.