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.
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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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 do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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 chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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 good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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