It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll ought to be common among friends.
More Anatole France Quotes
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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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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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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