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There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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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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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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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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Silence is the wit of fools.
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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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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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