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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
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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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Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
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What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
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Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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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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In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
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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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Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
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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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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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Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
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All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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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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The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
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