We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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