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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.

Anatole France

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion

As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.

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