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Anatole France Inspirational Quotes (165)

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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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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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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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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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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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