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All ought to be common among friends.

Anatole France

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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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 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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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 Dream Greatness Planning
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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

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