It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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