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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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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
Anatole France
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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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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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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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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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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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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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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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
Anatole France
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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