The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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