People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
More Anatole France Quotes
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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