The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?
Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.