All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
ANATOLE FRANCEWandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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