It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
(The Revolt of the Angels, 1914)
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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