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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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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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