We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
More Anatole France Quotes
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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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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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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