Forgive your enemies - that's the best way to get them out of your mind
The public is surprisingly tolerant. He will forgive you everything except genius.
The public looks at the tragedian, and the comic at the public.
Punctuality is the thief of time.
The play was a great success, but the audience suffered a resounding failure.
Work is the last refuge of those who have nothing else to do.
Divorces are consummated in heaven.
Religions die when they have been shown the truth. Science is the chronicle of dead religions.
Religion is a widespread surrogate for faith.
Relatives are the most boring people, they don't have the faintest idea how we should live, and they can never tell when it's time to die.
With bad women you find no rest, and with good women you suffer from boredom. Here is the difference.
With today's young people, you can't pull it off. They have no respect for dyed hair.
The most solid foundation of marriage is the lack of mutual understanding.
The surest consolation is to lay hold of another's admirer, when you lose your own. In high society this always exonerates the woman.
The most unforgivable thing about a fanatic is his sincerity.
Self-sacrifice must be prohibited by law. It corrupts those in whose name the sacrifice is made. They always deviate from the right path.
Man always commits the most ridiculous acts for the noblest reasons.
Holiness is born of love. Saints are the people who loved the most.
To turn a man into a socialist is a trifle, but to make socialism human is a truly great deed.
Today, you can flirt until you're forty or be romantic until forty-five.
Today, every great man has disciples, and his biography is usually written by Judas.
The secret to staying young is avoiding bad emotions.
The family breaks up more often because of the sound judgment of the husband than because of other reasons how can a woman be happy with a man who persistently wants to see a rational creature by her side?
Severity is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Telling the truth to a person's face is sometimes more than a duty - it is a pleasure.
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
"How long could you love a woman who doesn't love you?"- "Who doesn't love me? All my life."
Tears are a refuge for bad women, and death for pretty ones.
Listening is very dangerous: you can be convinced. And the man who yields to the arguments of reason is an extremely unreasonable creature.
Conscience makes us all selfish.