It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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