Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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 we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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 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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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