“Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.”

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.

The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.

Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

Live with the objective of being happy.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.