Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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