Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.