Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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