“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
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.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.