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.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll 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.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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