I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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