The man of letters rouses the capitals and conveys a taste for
intellectual gymnastics.
We love women in proportion as they are strangers to us. To love
intelligent women is a pleasure of the pederast. Thus bestiality
excludes pederasty.
The spirit of buffoonery need not exclude charity; but that's rare.
Enthusiasm applied to other things than abstractions is a sign of
weakness and disease.
The thin is more naked, more indecent, than the fat.