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People who don't count won't count.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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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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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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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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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.
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