A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
ANDRE MAUROISIf 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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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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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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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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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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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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