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.
ANATOLE FRANCEPeople who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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For 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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Our passions are ourselves.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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