To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhen a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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