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.
ANATOLE FRANCENever 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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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He 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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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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 human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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