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.
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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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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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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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 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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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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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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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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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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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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