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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

Anatole France

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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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  Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

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  All ought to be common among friends.

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  But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.

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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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  We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

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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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  It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

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  It is not customary to love what one has

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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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  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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  When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

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  If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

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  The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

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  Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

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