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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.

Anatole France

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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
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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End Life People
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
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time

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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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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