Status in English

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.

Only the shallow know themselves.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.

Genius is born—not paid.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.