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

Anatole France

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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
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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End Life People
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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 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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
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
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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

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