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Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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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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The best sentence? The shortest.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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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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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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