People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.
ANDRE MAUROISThe first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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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 difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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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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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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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 happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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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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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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