The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCEStupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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