If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhen a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
More Anatole France Quotes
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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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 history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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