To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.