Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois
André Mauroiswas a French author...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 July 1885
CountryFrance
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
happiness mind quality
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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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognize our qualities
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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly
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The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
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A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
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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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He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.