To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.
To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
History is the study of the world's crime
Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.