The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
ANDRE MAUROISA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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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 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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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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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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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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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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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