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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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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Himself Myself Touch World
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
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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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
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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Book Library Myself People
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
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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Himself Principle
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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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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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Equality Food Poor Rich
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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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Commitment Difference Education Memories

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