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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

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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End Life People
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
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

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