Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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