Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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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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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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