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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Anatole France

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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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End Life People
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
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

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