When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
More Anatole France Quotes
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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