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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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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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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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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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.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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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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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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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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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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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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