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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

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
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
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People

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