Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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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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