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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Change is the essence of life.
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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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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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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