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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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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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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
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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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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
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Intelligent women always marry fools
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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