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.
ANATOLE FRANCEYet, 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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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 have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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