It is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCEHe 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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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