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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Anatole France

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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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  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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  Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

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

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

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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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  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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  Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

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  People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

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