The First Recipe For Happiness Is: Avoid

Love Born Of Anxiety Resembles A Thorn Shaped So That Efforts To Pull It Out Of One's Flesh Merely Cause It To Penetrate More Deeply Therein.

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.

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 Minds Of Different Generations Are As Impenetrable One By The Other As Are The Monads Of Leibniz.

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.