If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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