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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

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live 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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
Determination. 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 Determination Dream Planning
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
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
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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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

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