Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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