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Andre Maurois
French
Writer
About the author
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. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Feeling
#Evil
#Old
#Age
#Soul
#Body
#Hair
#Generations
#Indifference
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Eccentricity
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Men
#Modesty
#Praise
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Argument
#Opinion
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Truth
#Poison
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Man
#Value
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Men
#Women
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.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Life
#Work
#Art
#Man
#Woman
#Memory
#Artist
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Love
#Literature
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.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Character
#Habit
#Destiny
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.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Men
#Open
#Desire
#Events
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Time
#Old
#Habit
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Conversation
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#War
#Business
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Age
#Artist
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Successful
#Day
#Marriage
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Nation
#Marriage
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Marriage
#Conversation
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Illusion
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Work
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.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Being
#Leaders
#Fitness
#Quality
#Force
#Leader
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Love
#Humanity
#Romantic
#Inventions
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Frankness
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Wit
#Witty
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Life
#Negative
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Family
#World
#Man
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Past
#First
#Happiness
#Meditation
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Style
#Temperament
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Smile
#Self
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#Self
#Fool
#Happiness
#Compassion
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois,
French
Writer
#People
#Enemy
#Man
#Woman
#Fool
#Intelligence
#Indifference