"We can talk frankly about our defects only……" — Andre Maurois
"We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities."
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71 Quotes by Andre Maurois
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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you…
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A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect…
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Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
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Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that…
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It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.
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When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
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The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life…
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The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with…
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A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were…
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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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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
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More Defects Quotes
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
— John Adams
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external…
— Saint Basil
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
— Joseph Addison
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
— Max Beerbohm
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are…
— Chaz Bono
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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects…
— Albert Camus
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I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
— Roberto Cavalli
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I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I…
— Hugo Chavez
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather…
— Margaret Halsey
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