Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.
Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.