If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Our passions are ourselves.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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