The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCEPeople who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
More Anatole France Quotes
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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