A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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