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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
Anatole France
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
Anatole France
Our passions are ourselves.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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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.
Anatole France
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
Anatole France
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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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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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
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Anatole France
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Anatole France
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
Anatole France
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.]
Anatole France
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
Anatole France