If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEFor 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 ought to be common among friends.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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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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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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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 average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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