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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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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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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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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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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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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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