All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
ANATOLE FRANCEAn education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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