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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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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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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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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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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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Live as if you were eternal.
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We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.
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If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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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.
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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
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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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Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
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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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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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 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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