We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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 the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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