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Anatole France Inspirational Quotes (165)

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People who don't count won't count.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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