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

Anatole France

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
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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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Himself Principle
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
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
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching

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