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.
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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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