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.
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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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