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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

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
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
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 law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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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End Life People
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.
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Discover Kind Truth
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
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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