Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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