It is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCEWhatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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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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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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