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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

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
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
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
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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

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