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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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