If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEIn art as in love, instinct is enough.
More Anatole France Quotes
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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 not customary to love what one has
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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