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#1

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#2

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46725 likes

#3

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

9099 likes

#4

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20334 likes

#5

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

11041 likes

#6

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

9966 likes

#7

“A vision without execution is an hallucination.”
― Jeffrey E. Garten, The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night

tags: enterprise

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#8

“Τίς εἶναι θέλεις, σαυτῷ πρῶτον εἰπέ: εἶθ' οὕτως ποίει ἃ ποιεῖς. (First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.)”
― Epictetus, The Discourses

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#9

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
― Thomas Edison

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#10

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

3889 likes

#11

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

4103 likes

#12

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education-knowledge

4467 likes

#13

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

8986 likes

#14

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: morality, philosophy

2520 likes

#15

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#16

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: attributed-no-source

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#17

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

1762 likes

#18

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: optimism

1206 likes

#19

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#20

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cigarette

1107 likes

#21

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

4252 likes

#22

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life, living

5051 likes

#23

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

10860 likes

#24

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

14111 likes

#25

“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
― Albert Camus

1253 likes

#26

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
― Albert Camus

1564 likes

#27

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: civilization, writers, writing

2098 likes

#28

“You can't create experience, you undergo it.”
― Albert Camus

tags: contemporary-romance

521 likes

#29

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
― Albert Camus

2448 likes

#30

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays

tags: philosophy, truth

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