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Anatole France quotes (29) It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. Anatole France Category: Understand The average man who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France Category: Eternity Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France Category: Curiosity Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. Anatole France Category: Sin We do not know what to do with this short life yet we want another which will be eternal. Anatole France Category: Immortality It is well for the heart to be naive And for the mind not to be. Anatole France Category: Heart Unhappiness does make people look stupid. Anatole France Category: Stupidity To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. Anatole France Category: Illusions An education isnt how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Anatole France Category: Education The law in its majestic equality forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets or to steal bread. Anatole France Category: Epithet That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Anatole France Category: Unsorted If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France Category: Fool The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. Anatole France Category: Adventure To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. Anatole France Category: Death When a thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France Category: Copy It is good to collect things; it is better to take walks. Anatole France Category: Collector All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! Anatole France Category: Change It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. Anatole France Category: Action To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe. Anatole France Category: Belief Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. Anatole France Category: Lever We have drugs to make women speak but none to keep them silent. Anatole France Category: Woe 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. Anatole France Category: Age I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. Anatole France Category: Enthusiasm A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole France Category: Happiness Never lend books for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me. Anatole France Category: Book Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. Anatole France Category: Chance Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. Anatole France Category: Relax Of all sexual aberrations chastity is the strangest. Anatole France Category: Chastity It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature in her indifference makes no distinction between good and evil. Anatole France Category: Law |
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