To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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As 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.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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