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In love, self-love is always at risk.
Dutch painting: daily life is enough.
Money is a better tonic than Geritol.
Few things are worth doing perfectly.
The Simple Life is not a simple life.
Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
As a dream comes true, it falls flat.
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
My secrets are petty but humiliating.
Age: I go slower as time goes faster.
Many try to force the past to change.
Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.
Duty is whatever opposes inclination.
The aphorist is a hit and run artist.
The aphorism is a slippery plaything.
Energy falls just short of being joy.
Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.
Do not wait for a reason to be happy.
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Wisdom is dead. Long live information.
I resist change even as I call for it.
The young are amazed when they suffer.
Thought enables us to see Fate coming.
Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.
Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.
The passion for money is never fickle.
Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.
A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.
We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.
Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.
Living too long exacts a painful price.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
The only peace is being out of earshot.
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.
Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.
Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.
Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.
The sun cares nothing for illumination.
Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.
Do as you like--if you know what it is.
Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.
Winning means outlasting everyone else.
The familiar changes as we cling to it.