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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is 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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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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The impotence of God is infinite.
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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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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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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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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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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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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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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