It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is not customary to love what one has
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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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.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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