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It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

Children are the root of all evil ... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos
the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

What is a logical mind? ... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.