A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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 history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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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