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Andre Maurois Inspirational Quotes (112)

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I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
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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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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
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Style is the outcome of constraint.
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Old age diminishes our strength it takes away our pleasures one after the other it withers the soul as well as the body it renders adventure and friendship difficult and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
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Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
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British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.
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A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
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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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One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
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There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
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He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
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Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
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An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
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To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.
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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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It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.
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Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
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It is restful to leave one's home not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
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It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.
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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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Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
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Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors by trying at the outset to imitate them by daring then to be original by destroying one's first productions.
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