To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCEWandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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