It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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