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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

There is no sin except stupidity.

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

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.