It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe 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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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