The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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