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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

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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 him or the student who honors him.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Scientist

Born: October 30th, 1894

Died: September 4th, 1977

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