Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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