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.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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