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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Anatole France

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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
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
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
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
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
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
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

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