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Our passions are ourselves.

Anatole France

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 by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
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
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner

Our passions are ourselves.

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