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.
ANATOLE FRANCEOf all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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