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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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.
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs... →
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.