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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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