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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
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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
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
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
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
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
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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Himself Myself Touch World
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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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End Life People
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner

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

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