The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
ANATOLE FRANCEWithout lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
More Anatole France Quotes
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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 good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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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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