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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov

life
science
to know
wisdom

For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years."
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid

soul
youth

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing."
Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel

wings

Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

happiness
others

I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

mistake
to die

There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them."
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

thing
to hide

Important matters may manifest themselves through small signs."
Sigmund Freud - Introduction to Psychoanalysis

We admire the world through what we love."
Alphonse de Lamartine

love
world

There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not."
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

love
to hide

If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others."
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

others

I am rich in the goods that I can do without."
Louis Vigée

rich

Love truth, but pardon error."
Voltaire

forgiveness
truth

I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me."
Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos

Human nature

There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts."
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

law
strength

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have."
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain

danger
idea

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles
Aeneid
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All's Well That Ends Well
Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?
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Art Poétique
Beyond Good and Evil
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Dictionary of Received Ideas
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Ecoutez la chanson bien douce
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Treatise on Tolerance
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Zadig, or The Book of Fate

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