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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Anatole France

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
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
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
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
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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
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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

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