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.
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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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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