Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
ANATOLE FRANCENine tenths of education is encouragement.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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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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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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