It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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