For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
ANATOLE FRANCEScience 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.
More Anatole France Quotes
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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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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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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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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