A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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