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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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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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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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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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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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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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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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