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Quote of Oscar Wilde ? - Be yourself; everyone else is already...


Biography - Oscar Wilde:

Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.



Translation

Translation

(French, German, Spanish, Italian)



French
Soyez vous-même, tous les autres sont déjà pris.

German
Sei du selbst! Alle anderen sind bereits vergeben.

Spanish
Sé tú mismo, los demás puestos ya están ocupados.

Italian
Sii te stesso; tutti gli altri sono già stati presi.




See also 

See also...



As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Observe what your nature requires of you.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The art, my children, it is to be absolutely oneself.

Tell yourself, first of all, what kind of man you want to be; and then go ahead with what you are doing.

Become who you are!

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

I accept the great adventure of being me.

The stars of your destiny are in your heart.




Quotes for: others


Quotes

Quotes about others:


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.





Let the other side be heard as well.
Seneca / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.











Quotes for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.





If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.











Quotes

Oscar Wilde also said...


Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





To be in love is to surpass one's self.





When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.





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





In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.





Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.












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