We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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