We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Our passions are ourselves.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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