Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhat can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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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.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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 not customary to love what one has
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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