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 FRANCEThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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