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

Anatole France

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
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
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
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
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
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
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
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement

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

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