It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
More Anatole France Quotes
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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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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