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 FRANCEThe 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 FRANCEArmenia 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.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCEUntil one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
ANATOLE FRANCEDetermination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhat can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCEPeople who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll 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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