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There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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The impotence of God is infinite.

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The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

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Suffering . We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

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People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them

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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.

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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

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One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

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Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

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It is better to understand little than to understand a lot.

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.

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How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!

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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

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