It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEStupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
More Anatole France Quotes
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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