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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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