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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
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
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
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking 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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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
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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Book Library Myself People
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
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
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

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