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

Anatole France

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
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
Determination. 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 Determination Dream Planning
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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
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

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