We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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