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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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
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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Commitment Difference Education Memories
Determination. 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 Determination Dream Planning
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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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Himself Principle
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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price

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