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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.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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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 law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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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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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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People who don't count won't count.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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