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.
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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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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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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