If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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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 ought to be common among friends.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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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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