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

Anatole France

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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End Life People
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
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Himself Principle
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
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
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
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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
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

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

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