We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCENine tenths of education is encouragement.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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