It is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCEIf fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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