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We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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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.
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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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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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Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
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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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If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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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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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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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
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He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
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It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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