Doctor Quote by Marcel Proust

“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.”

— Marcel Proust

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

— Marcel Proust

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“Sickness leading to healing. The truth and its opposite again”

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Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

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