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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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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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Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
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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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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.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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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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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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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Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
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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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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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