Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
ANATOLE FRANCEWithout lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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 be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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