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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Anatole France

If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
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
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
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
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
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

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