To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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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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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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