Smile, For Everyone Lacks Self-confidence And More

What Men Call Friendship Is Only Social Intercourse, An Exchange Of Favours And Good Offices; It Comes Down To A Commercial Dealing In Which Self-esteem Always Expects To Profit.

Almost All Great Writers Have As Their Motif, More Or Less Disguised, The Passage From Childhood To Maturity, The Clash Between The Thrill Of Expectation And The Disillusioning Knowledge Of Truth. 'lost Illusion' Is The Undisclosed Title Of Every Novel.

Old Age Diminishes Our Strength; It Takes Away Our Pleasures One After The Other; It Withers The Soul As Well As The Body; It Renders Adventure And Friendship Difficult; And Finally It Is Shadowed By Thoughts Of Death.

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 Treated, Might Have Been An Angel.

Everything That Is In Agreement With Our Personal Desires Seems True; Everything That Is Not Puts Us In A Rage.