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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

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
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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 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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal 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
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
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
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

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

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