All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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If 50 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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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