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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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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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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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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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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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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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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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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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