We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
ANATOLE FRANCEUntil one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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