I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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