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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Anatole France

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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon

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