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.
ANATOLE FRANCEAs to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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 should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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