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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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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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The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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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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