We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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.
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 weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.