Andre Maurois

(537 votes)   A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Andre Maurois
1885-1967, French Writer

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(236 votes)   Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by.

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(165 votes)   Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

Andre Maurois
1885-1967, French Writer

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(134 votes)   In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.

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(108 votes)   A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

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(97 votes)   The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

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(66 votes)   A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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(63 votes)   A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

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

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(58 votes)   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.

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(57 votes)   The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

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(56 votes)   Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

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(56 votes)   To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

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(51 votes)   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.

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(50 votes)   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.

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