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.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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