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.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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