The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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All 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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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