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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

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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

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