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.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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