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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.

Anatole France

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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
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
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
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
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
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
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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 human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
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
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon

Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.

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