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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

Anatole France

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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
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 history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
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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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
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
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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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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