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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

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Book Reading
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
Determination. 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 Determination Dream Planning
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion

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