The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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