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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.

Anatole France

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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
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
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
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
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
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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
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

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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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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