Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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As 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.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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