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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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The impotence of God is infinite.
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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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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 greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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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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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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