If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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