Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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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 old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.''
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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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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If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.
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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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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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To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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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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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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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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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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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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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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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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