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.
ANDRE MAUROISOld 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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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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The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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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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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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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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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.
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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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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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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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The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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