The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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