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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

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
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
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
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
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
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

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

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