Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
Life is the risk we cannot refuse.
Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.
Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies - never.
Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.
Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.
We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.
Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.
Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.
All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.
Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee.
Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.
Trust, but look for the exits.
