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.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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