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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Anatole France

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
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
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
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
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

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