If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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