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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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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Equality Food Poor Rich
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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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
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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Himself Myself Touch World
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
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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End Life People
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich

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