Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?
I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.
Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.