No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
Don’t use big words. They mean so little.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
I can resist everything except temptation.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Only the shallow know themselves.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.