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.
ANDRE MAUROISConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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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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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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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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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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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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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