If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
More Anatole France Quotes
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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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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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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