The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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