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Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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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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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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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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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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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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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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