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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Anatole France

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
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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Discover Kind Truth
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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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Himself Principle
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

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