Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCEOf all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
More Anatole France Quotes
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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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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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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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