Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe 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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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