All ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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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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 by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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