What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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