What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
ANATOLE FRANCEWithout 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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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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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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