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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

Marcel Proust

When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Beauty Possible Promise
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Break Distance Food Past Taste
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Life Moments Wait
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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