Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
ANATOLE FRANCEOur passions are ourselves.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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 by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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