A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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