People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCEUntil one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
More Anatole France Quotes
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All ought to be common among friends.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Yet, 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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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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