When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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