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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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 average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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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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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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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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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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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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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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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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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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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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Intelligent women always marry fools
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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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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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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