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.
ANATOLE FRANCEAwaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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