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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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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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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
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