Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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 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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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