The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
ANATOLE FRANCEFor the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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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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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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