All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCEA person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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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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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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