We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
More Anatole France Quotes
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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All ought to be common among friends.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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