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

Anatole France

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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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 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
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing

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

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