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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

Anatole France

All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
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
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
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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
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
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

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