Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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