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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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 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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking

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