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Other Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,…
- The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
- Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet…
- The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in…
- We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it…
- It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
- Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
- It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
- Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
- The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which…
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many…
- Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for…
- The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to…
- To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
- The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
- The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by…
- His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
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