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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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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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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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