A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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 wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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