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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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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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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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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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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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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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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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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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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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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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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The more you say, the less they remember.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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Change is the essence of life.
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