We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
ANDRE MAUROISA marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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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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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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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 most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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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 contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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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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