It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
