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

Anatole France

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
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
Determination. 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 Determination Dream Planning
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
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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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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
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
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
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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

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

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