There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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