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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

Anatole France

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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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
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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Himself Principle
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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Discover Kind Truth
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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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End Life People
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

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