The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Quotes by Andre Maurois
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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.
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.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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.
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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