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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

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
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
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
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
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 Dream Greatness Planning
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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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Commitment Difference Education Memories
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie

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