Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no
explanation.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any 
use to oneself.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the 
faithless who know love's tragedies.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I can resist anything but temptation.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their 
good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man 
cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's 
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and 
took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing 
about my old ones.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is 
absolutely fatal.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no 
principles better than anything else in the world.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good 
than to be ugly.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never 
marry.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same

I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give 
really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an 
unbiased opinion is always valueless. 

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is 
not, and a sense of humor is provided to console him from what he 
is.








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