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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
#Angel
#Fool
#Intelligence
#Look
#Man
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
- Andre Maurois
#Against
#Age
#Artist
#Go
#Stand
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
#Desire
#Events
#Men
#Open
#Own
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
#Age
#Evil
#Game
#Old Age
#Soul
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
- Andre Maurois
#Almost
#Marriage
#Nation
#Without
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
- Andre Maurois
#Born
#Early
#Men
#Relationship
#Women
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
- Andre Maurois
#Argument
#Difficult
#Know
#Opinion
#Part
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
- Andre Maurois
#Avoid
#Enough
#Must
#Too Much
#Wit
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
- Andre Maurois
#Poison
#Pure
#Truth Is
#Truth
#Whom
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
- Andre Maurois
#Conversation
#Funny
#Know
#Simple
#Words
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
#Act
#Character
#Create
#Destiny
#Habit
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
#Art
#Great
#Life
#Man
#Work
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
- Andre Maurois
#Funny
#Humanity
#Love
#Romantic
#Worst
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
- Andre Maurois
#Avoid
#First
#Happiness
#Past
#Recipe
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
#Business
#Fitness
#Important
#Quality
Business is a combination of war and sport.
- Andre Maurois
#Business
#Combination
#Sport
#War
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
- Andre Maurois
#Age
#Bad
#Busy
#Habit
#Time
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
- Andre Maurois
#Everyone
#More
#One Thing
#Other
#Smile
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
- Andre Maurois
#Conversation
#Happy
#Long
#Marriage
#Too
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
- Andre Maurois
#Day
#Every Day
#Every
#Marriage
#Must
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
- Andre Maurois
#Alone
#Cold
#Family
#Man
#World
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
- Andre Maurois
#Chosen
#Dating
#Literature
#Love
#Others
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