As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

If you admire somebody you should go ahead and tell them; people never get the flowers while they can still smell them.