We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCEOur passions are ourselves.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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