I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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 do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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