Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

The familiar changes as we cling to it.

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

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

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