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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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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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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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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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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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