Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
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Kill a man one is a murderer kill a million, a conqueror kill them all, a God.Jean Rostand
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
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