The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."

"There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him."

"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"