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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
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

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