People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCEAwaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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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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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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