Marcel Proust

"Power without wisdom is tyranny."

"Money is a motive but never a reason."

"Health is a state of mind and body working in harmony."

"Adventure is the best education."

"The imagination transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary."

"History repeats itself because we fail to learn from it."

"Philosophy begins with wonder and ends with acceptance."

"Literature is the mirror of the human soul."

"Politics is the art of making people believe they want what you want."

"War is the failure of diplomacy and the triumph of the weak."

"Motivation comes from understanding the meaning of what we do."

"Inspiration is the confluence of preparation and opportunity."

"True relationships are built on mutual vulnerability."

"The greatest gift is the one we give ourselves."

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

"Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit."

"The only real paradise is the paradise that we have lost."

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."

"The paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention."

"A work in which there are theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

"The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind."

"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed."

"Time moves in one direction; memory in another."

"The true journey of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in perceiving with fresh eyes."

"A lady's virtue is a man's greatest invention."

"Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage."

"The elegance of a literary style, like that of a dress, consists in its simplicity."

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us."