We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
More Anatole France Quotes
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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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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