If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCEAs to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
ANATOLE FRANCEIn art as in love, instinct is enough.
ANATOLE FRANCEArmenia 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.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — 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 FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll 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.
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