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- The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of…
- We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was…
- Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first…
- The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
- 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…
- To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
- What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill…
- Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
- Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
- One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
- 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…
- All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
- We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
- The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
- Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about…
- All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
- Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the rest of life…
- 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…
- Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle