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- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
- Dull
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- Nov 07, 2020
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
- Irony
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
- Constructing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is the wit of fools.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020