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.
ANATOLE FRANCEA person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
More Anatole France Quotes
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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 be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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 by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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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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