For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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