It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCEAs 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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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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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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