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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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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
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People who don't count won't count.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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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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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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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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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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