If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

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...

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.

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...

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

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.

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.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.