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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To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.
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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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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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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 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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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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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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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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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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