To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCEHe 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.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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