Andre Maurois Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
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“A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.”
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“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
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“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”
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“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
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“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”
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“To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.”
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“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.”
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“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.”
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“There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.”
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“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
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“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”
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“If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.”
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“Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.”
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“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.”
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“We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.”
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“Business is a combination of war and sport.”
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“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
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“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.”
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“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”
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“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”
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“A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.”
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“Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.”
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“The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.”
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“The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block.”
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“Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.”
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“To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.”
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“He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.”
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“Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.”
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“To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.”
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