Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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