I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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 a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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