If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll ought to be common among friends.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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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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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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