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Renan, detail of an oil painting by Léon Bonnat, 1892; in the Musée Renan, Tréguier, Fr.
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Renan, detail of an oil painting by Léon Bonnat, 1892; in the Musée Renan, Tréguier, Fr.
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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Ernest Renan: Quotes

  • Nations
    To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people.Ernest Renan
  • Science
    The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.Ernest Renan: Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse