A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us. And yet—

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.