What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.Anatole France
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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