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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

Marcel Proust

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
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
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
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
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
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
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

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