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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

Anatole France

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
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
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
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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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Himself Myself Touch World
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking

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