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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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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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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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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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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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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 first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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