I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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