To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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