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Change is the essence of life.
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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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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People who don't count won't count.
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Intelligent women always marry fools
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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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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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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 human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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