People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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 so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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