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- A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- Anatole France
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- Anatole France
- 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 do know and what you don't.
- Anatole France
- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
- It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
- Anatole France
- It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
- Anatole France
- So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
- Anatole France
- The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
- Anatole France
- To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
- To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
- To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
- Anatole France
- To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
- Anatole France
- When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
- Anatole France
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
- Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
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