The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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