1. “Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.”
2. “Successful innovations become conventions.”
3. “Irony regards every single truth as a challenge.”
4. “Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.”
5. “The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.”
6. “Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.”
7. “Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.”
8. “Constant talkers are unheard.”
9. “Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.”
10. “Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.”
11. “Fear and lies intensify consciousness.”
12. “Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.”
13. “Passion cooks. Reason cleans.”
14. “Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.”
15. “The nonsense that charms is close to sense.”
16. “Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.”
17. “Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.”
18. “Complaining is the favourite pastime of millions.”
19. “Silence kills scandal.”
20. “We often disguise our reflex as deliberate actions.”
21. “Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.”
22. “Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.”
23. “You know you’re in love when you stop comparing.”
24. “To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.”
25. “An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.”
26. “Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.”
27. “The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.”
28. “The body has a mind of its own.”
29. “Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.”
30. “The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.”
