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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
Anatole France
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
Anatole France
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Anatole France
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
Anatole France
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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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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.
Anatole France
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
Anatole France
Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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