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.
ANATOLE FRANCENever lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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