If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll 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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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