It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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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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He 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.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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