To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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