When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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