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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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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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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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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.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
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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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