It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
ANATOLE FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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