To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Solo le persone superficiali non giudicano dalle apparenze.
a little cup as delicate in texture as the petal of a flower
The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
La vita imita l'arte più di quanto l'arte non imiti la vita.