It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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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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