As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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