If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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