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.
ANATOLE FRANCEAn 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, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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