If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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