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Anatole France Inspirational Quotes (165)

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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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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.
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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