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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
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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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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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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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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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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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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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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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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