Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDEOne does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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