Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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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 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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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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