Suffering - how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
(The Garden of Epicurus, 1895)
Anatole France
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Life teaches us that we are never happy except at the price of some ignorance. To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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