If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCENine tenths of education is encouragement.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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