Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe 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.
More Anatole France Quotes
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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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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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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