Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.