The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
ANATOLE FRANCEFor 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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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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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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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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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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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