The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
ANDRE MAUROISSmile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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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 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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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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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