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.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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