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.
ANATOLE FRANCEOf all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Of 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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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