It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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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 should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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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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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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