Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.