Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.
