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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.


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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.



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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.



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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.



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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.



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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.



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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.



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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.



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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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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.





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He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw and playeth there with.



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The power of making war often prevents it.



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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective




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