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.
ANATOLE FRANCEFor 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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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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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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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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