Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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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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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 can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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