The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. – Oscar Wilde
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. – Oscar Wilde
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist — the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with ones vinegar. – Oscar Wilde
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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else. – Simone Weil
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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it — a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished. – John Stuart Mill
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