Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
ANDRE MAUROISSmile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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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.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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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 difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
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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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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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