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Our passions are ourselves.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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Change is the essence of life.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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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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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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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 law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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