Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

I don't mind plain women being Puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.

Man is a reasonable animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.