Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
ANATOLE FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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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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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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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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