We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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The 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.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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 human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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