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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.

Anatole France

In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
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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Himself Principle
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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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Discover Kind Truth

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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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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