I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.
Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.
Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.