Andre Maurois Quotes

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• 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.

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  Life, Motivational, Real

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• Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

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  Freedom, Learning, Simple

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

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  Happiness, Being Happy, Business

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• 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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  Character, Destiny, Virtue

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• We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

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  Love, Appreciation, Quality

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• Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

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  Inspirational, Enemy, Retreat

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• The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

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  Art, Block, Support

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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

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  Love, Happiness, Anniversary

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• Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.

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  Years, Ideas, Mind

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• A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.

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  Strong, Women, Weakness

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

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  Death, Fear, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

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  Opinion, Arguing, Argument

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

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  Art, Real, Effort

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• The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

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  Life, Happiness, Men

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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

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  Marriage, Conflict, Crisis

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.

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  Real, Found, Real Ones

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

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  Mind, Suffering, Body

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

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  Perfect One, Too Late, Action

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.149, SpiralPress

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• Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

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  Titles, Illusion, Lost

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• Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

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  Glasses, Sincerity, Diamond

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• For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

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  Wise, Mean, Intelligent

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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

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  Inspirational, Family, Men

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• To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

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  Witty, Humor, Too Much

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

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  Poison, Truth Is, Certain

  Andre Maurois (1925). “Ariel the Life of Shelley”

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• Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

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  Taken, Chance, Action

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