The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
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.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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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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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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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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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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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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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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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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