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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
Biographer
Critic
Librarian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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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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Silence is the wit of fools.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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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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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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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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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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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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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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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
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