Aphorisms

Love With Receipts

12 aphorisms

  1. The secret of the direct relation between a man’s wealth and the number of his romantic relationships is this: women prefer a rich man.

  2. The ideal solution to all relationship problems: the man’s life goal should be making his woman happy, while at the same time the woman’s life goal should be making her man happy. Neither side of the equation may fall away.

  3. For some strange reason, pain sometimes has the same sweetness as pleasure. Often we suffer from pleasure, and sweeten pain. How strange the human being is.

  4. A common factor between man and woman: neither of them knows exactly what the woman wants.

  5. A shared goal of man and woman: making the man a successful human being.

  6. Why does a girl prefer a “street-smart” young man who has seen it all? I will answer this question with another: would you enter a restaurant where every table is empty?

  7. Society’s injustice toward women lies more in the scarcity of offered choices, while its injustice toward men is the multiplication of imposed responsibilities.

  8. The person who cannot hate, feel jealousy, or bear grudges is happy. Yet these emotions remain among the greatest driving forces, and one way or another they are “talents” that help in fighting. Whoever possesses them without excess is more successful, even if less happy.

  9. The worst thing a person can do, at all, is betray the trust of someone who trusted him.

  10. When will they understand this? He does not love her because there is something special in her. She is special because he loves her.

  11. Manhood: the power to untie and bind, and the daring to mount the tallest horse.

  12. Wisdom lies in love. The reverse is sometimes true. Folly lies in hatred. The reverse is never true.

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