When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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 be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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