Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCEOf all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — 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 FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCEIf fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCEAs 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.
ANATOLE FRANCENever lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
ANATOLE FRANCEWithout lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCEArmenia 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.
ANATOLE FRANCEFor the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
ANATOLE FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCEStupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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