I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEAwaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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It is not customary to love what one has
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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