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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

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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Book Library Myself People
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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 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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Equality Food Poor Rich
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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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
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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Himself Myself Touch World
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
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path

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