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.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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