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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 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
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
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
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Himself Principle
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom

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