Anatole France Quotes - Famous Quotes by Anatole France
Born: 1844-04-16
Died: 1924-10-12
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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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 know and what you don't.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is better to understand little than to understand a lot.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
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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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have leant me.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
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People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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Suffering . 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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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The books that everybody admires are those nobody reads.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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