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Cultivate a well-ordered mind, it's your only road to happiness; and to reach it, be… — Eugene Delacroix

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Cultivate a well-ordered mind, it's your only road to happiness; and to reach it, be orderly in everything, even in the smallest details.

In the original French

L'habitude de l'ordre dans les idées est pour toi la seule route au bonheur; et pour y arriver, l'ordre dans tout le reste, même dans les choses les plus indifférentes, est nécessaire.

Eugene Delacroix
1823
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Current citation
Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.
Original citation
Delacroix, Eugène. Journal entry. 15 Apr. 1823.

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