If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEI prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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