There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Author: Andre Maurois

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

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.