So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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