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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.

Anatole France

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
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
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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
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
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 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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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
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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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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