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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.

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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
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
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
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom

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