Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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