It is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCENine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhat can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
ANATOLE FRANCEI prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCEWandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll ought to be common among friends.
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.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCEAwaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
ANATOLE FRANCEOf all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEFor the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhen a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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