Our passions are ourselves.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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