The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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