“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”
Ernest Renan
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“You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.”
Ernest Renan
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“In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.”
Ernest Renan
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“When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.”
Ernest Renan
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“Communism is in conflict with human nature.”
Ernest Renan
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“Man makes holy what he believes.”
Ernest Renan
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.”
Ernest Renan
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Opinions
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“The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.”
Ernest Renan
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Greatness
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“I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.”
Ernest Renan
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
