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

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board..

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 out….

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment..

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..

Live as if you were eternal..

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..

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past..

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

We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one..

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence o….

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day..

Advice is always a confession..

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be ori….

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness....

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast..

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 most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force..

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) canno….

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind..

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us..