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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.

Marcel Proust

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
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Progress Reality Road
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
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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
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
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Cheating Love Relationship Woman
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time World
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
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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Imperfection Judgement View
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion

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