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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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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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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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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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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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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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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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