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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.

Anatole France

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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
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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Equality Food Poor Rich
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself

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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