When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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