I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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 fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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 history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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