The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
ANATOLE FRANCEArmenia 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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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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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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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