Quotes by Anatole France

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  • Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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  • To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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  • To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.
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  • Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
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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 do know and what you don't.
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  • It is better to understand little than to understand a lot.
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  • People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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  • To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.
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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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  • It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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  • The impotence of God is infinite.
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  • The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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  • People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them
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  • Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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  • It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
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  • The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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  • The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
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  • If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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  • Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
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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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  • When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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  • To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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  • It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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  • A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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  • When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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