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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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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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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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