I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
More Anatole France Quotes
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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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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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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 chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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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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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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 human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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