Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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