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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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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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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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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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