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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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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Himself Myself Touch World
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
Determination. 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 Determination Dream Planning
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
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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Equality Food Poor Rich

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