Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCEOf all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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