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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

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
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
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
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
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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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path

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