All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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