It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe 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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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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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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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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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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