If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
More Anatole France Quotes
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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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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