We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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 not customary to love what one has
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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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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 do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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