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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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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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Change is the essence of life.
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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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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 well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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