- A man can be happy with a woman so long as he does not love her.
- A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism the world has known.
- I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
- I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
- Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- In married life three is company and two none.
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
- The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead to you.
- The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
- The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
- There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
- The only thing worse in life than being talked about is not being talked about at all.
- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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