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.
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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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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 average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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