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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.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

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

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

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

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

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.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.