Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
More Anatole France Quotes
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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