A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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,...
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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