It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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