Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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.
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.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...
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.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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 owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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