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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

Anatole France

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  The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

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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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  To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

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  It is not customary to love what one has

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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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  All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

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  Our passions are ourselves.

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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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  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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  Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

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  The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

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  Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

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  Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

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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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  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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  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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