To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe 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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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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