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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is 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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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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To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.
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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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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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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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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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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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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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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 well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
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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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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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