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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
[ Ignorance ]
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
[ Chance ]
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
[ History and Historians ]
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
[ Enthusiasm ]
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
[ Growth ]
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
[ Innocence ]
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
[ Irony ]
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It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
[ Understanding ]
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
[ Action ]
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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
[ Human Nature ]
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
[ Money ]
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
[ Innocence ]
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
[ Lovers ]
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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
[ Nature ]
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
[ Education ]
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
[ Humankind ]
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
[ The future ]
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
[ Books - Reading ]
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
[ Words ]
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.
[ Chance ]
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
[ Belief ]
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We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
[ Egotism ]
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
[ Sanity ]
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
[ Plagiarism ]
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
[ Lies and Lying ]
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