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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
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
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

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