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.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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