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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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
François-Anatole Thibault
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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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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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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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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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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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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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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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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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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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 person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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