Only the shallow know themselves.

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

It is so easy for people to have sympathy with suffering. It is so difficult for them to have sympathy with thought.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.

For what is Truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.