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.
ANDRE MAUROISLost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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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.
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The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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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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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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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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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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