Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past

I like men who have a future and women who have a past

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just...

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just...

Nature is always behind the age

Nature is always behind the age

Anybody can be good in the country

Anybody can be good in the country

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what...

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what...

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally...

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Everything popular is wrong.

Everything popular is wrong.

Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and...

Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and...

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.