Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEDetermination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
ANATOLE FRANCEA person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
ANATOLE FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhat can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
ANATOLE FRANCEThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCEAs 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.
ANATOLE FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCEStupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll 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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