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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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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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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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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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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 more you say, the less they remember.
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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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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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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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People who don't count won't count.
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