To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCEUntil one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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