The color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Dare to be yourself.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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