All ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCEA person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
More Anatole France Quotes
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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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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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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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