Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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