It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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All ought to be common among friends.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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