I am not young enough to know everything. ★ Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ★ I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ★ What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ★ Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ★ A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
★ Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ★ An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ★ The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. ★ Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ★ Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. ★ Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ★ I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ★ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken ★ Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation ★ You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
