To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
ANDRE MAUROISThe first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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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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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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 effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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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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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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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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