André Maurois
"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."
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"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."
"ابتسم، فكلٌّ يفتقر إلى الثقة بالنفس، وما من شيء يطمئنهم أكثر من الابتسامة."
André Maurois
"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."
"في الأدب كما في الحب، نُذهَل مما يختاره الآخرون."
André Maurois
"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."
"لتحسنت المحادثة كثيرًا بالاستخدام الدائم لأربع كلمات بسيطة: أنا لا أعلم."
André Maurois
"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises."
"زواج بلا نزاعات يكاد يكون مستحيلاً، تماماً كأمة بلا أزمات."
André Maurois
"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."
"الزواج الناجح صرحٌ يجب أن يُعاد بناؤه كل يوم."
André Maurois
"There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison."
"إنّ بعض النفوس لا تطيق الحقيقة الصافية، بل تراها سمًّا زعافًا."
André Maurois
"Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences."
"الرجال والنساء لا يولدون متقلبين، بل تصنعهم كذلك تجاربهم العاطفية المبكرة."
André Maurois
"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."
"بلا عائلة، يرتجف الإنسان وحيدًا في هذا العالم من قسوة البرد."
André Maurois
"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."
"الناسُ صنيعةُ ما تجبلهم عليه. فنظرةُ الازدراءِ قد تُحيلُ رجلاً متوسطَ الذكاءِ إلى أحمقَ مطبقٍ. وتجاهلٌ مهينٌ قد يقلبُ امرأةً، لو أحسنتَ معاملتَها لكانت ملاكًا، إلى عدوٍ لدودٍ."
André Maurois
"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
André Maurois
"Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form."
André Maurois
"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."
André Maurois
"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."
André Maurois
"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder."
André Maurois
"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."
André Maurois
"Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."
André Maurois
"Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness."
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