André Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
André
Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
1885
1967
French Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Essayist
Author Quotes
Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.
Either the soul is immortal and we live forever and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know then that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Some truths between husband and wife must be spoken with sweetness. Wounded vanity is fatal to love. It makes one hate the person who inflicted the wound. In married conversation, as in surgery, the knife must be used with care.
You can take from a man his worldly belongings... but there is something no conqueror can take from him: that is his mind... Decorate and furnish with love that inner sanctuary of yours. We take a lot of trouble buying the right armchairs, tables and pictures; certainly we should take even more trouble to adorn the invisible walls of our minds.