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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Anatole France

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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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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Book Library Myself People
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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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
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 Dream Greatness Planning
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon

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