It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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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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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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