The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
ANDRE MAUROISA successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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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.
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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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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.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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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.
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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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