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

Anatole France

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

Character Man 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
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
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
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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
Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Determination Dream Planning

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

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