The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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.

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

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