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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

Anatole France

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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
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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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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Equality Food Poor Rich
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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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
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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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie

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