The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
ANDRE MAUROISModesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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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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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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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 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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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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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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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