A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
ANDRE MAUROISIf men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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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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If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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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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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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