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Category: André Maurois

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Relationship, Men, Born

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Alone, Man, World

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.

Man, Woman, Fool

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Past, Meditation, First

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Compassion, Fool, Us

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Time, Busy, Growing Old

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Artist, Stand, Must

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Soul, Hair, Evil

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.

Funny, Romantic, Humanity

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.

Fitness, Leader, Quality

Business is a combination of war and sport.

War, Combination, Sport

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

writers, writing