Our passions are ourselves.
ANATOLE FRANCEDetermination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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