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Anatole France Inspirational Quotes (165)

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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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Silence is the wit of fools.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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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 left me.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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