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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
Anatole Thibault
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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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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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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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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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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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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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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