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Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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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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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
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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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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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