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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

Anatole France

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
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
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
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie

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