The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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