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

Anatole France

It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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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Equality Food Poor Rich
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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
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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World

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