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Custom alone regulates morals.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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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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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
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Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Anatole France
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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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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