Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
More Anatole France Quotes
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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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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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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