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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

Anatole France

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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 fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
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
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
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
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking 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
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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Discover Kind Truth
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
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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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Book Library Myself People
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
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

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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