Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured 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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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