It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEFor the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
More Anatole France Quotes
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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 the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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 know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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 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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