The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.
Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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