There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class
The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame