Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".
It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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