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

Anatole France

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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
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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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
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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Himself Principle
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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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Commitment Difference Education Memories
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
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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Discover Kind Truth
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live

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

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