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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
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
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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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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 Dream Greatness Planning
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
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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Himself Myself Touch World
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
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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End Life People
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness

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