If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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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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