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.
ANDRE MAUROISConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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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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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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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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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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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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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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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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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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