Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.