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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.

Anatole France

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
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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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
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
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Sex Strange

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