Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

No man knows himself as an original.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.

Be obscure clearly.

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed.

Because we're old as sh*t. What do you want?

Imagine you were flowing with energy and confidence, free of doubt and fear.

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.