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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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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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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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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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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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