It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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