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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.

Anatole France

We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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 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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul

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