The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Happiness
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Happiness
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Life
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Love
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.
Success
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Wisdom
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Love
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.
Wisdom
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Success
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Wisdom
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Love
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Love
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Wisdom
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Wisdom
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Wisdom
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Happiness
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Wisdom
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Wisdom
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Love
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Wisdom
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Wisdom
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Wisdom
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Education
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
Wisdom
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