50+ Anatole France Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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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Himself Principle
Suffering — 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.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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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Equality Food Poor Rich
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.
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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself

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