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.
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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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