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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

Anatole France

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.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Discover Kind Truth
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
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
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man 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
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom

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