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

Anatole France

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
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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 good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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
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

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

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