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Category: Andre Maurois

12 December 2020 Andre Maurois

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.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

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.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

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.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

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.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

Business is a combination of war and sport.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

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.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

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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