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.
ANATOLE FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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