& will be resumed when clothes are no more. [The latter part of this aphorism is erased and underneath it he adds:]
MODESTY DIED
when clothes were born.
MODESTY DIED
when false modesty was born.
HISTORY
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
MORALS
are not the important thing—nor enlightenment—nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the needs of the body, not of the mind & spirit.
SUGGESTION
There is conscious suggestion & there is unconscious suggestion—both come from outside—whence all ideas come.
DUELS