A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCEA person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCEDetermination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEUntil one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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 FRANCEIt is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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 FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEAn 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.
ANATOLE FRANCEAwaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
ANATOLE FRANCEYet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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