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.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
More Anatole France Quotes
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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