Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
ANATOLE FRANCEWandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
More Anatole France Quotes
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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As 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.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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