If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
ANDRE MAUROISThe first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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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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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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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 effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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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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