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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 know and what you don't. (Anatole France)
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end . View quote
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants. View quote
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. View quote
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid. View quote
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You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists. View quote
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. View quote
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark. View quote
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die. (Anatole France)
It is not likely," remarked Joséphin Leclerc, "that the future will be such as you have seen it. I do not wish for the coming of socialism, but I dread it not. Collectivism at the helm would be quite another thing than is imagined. Who was it who said, carrying back his thoughts to the time of Constantine and of the Church's early triumphs : 'Christianity is triumphant, but its triumph is subject to the conditions imposed by life on all political and religious parties. All of them, whatever they may be, undergo so complete a transformation in the struggle that after victory there remains of themselves but the name and a few symbols of the last idea'? View quote
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not. View quote
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Silence is the wit of fools. View quote
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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home. View quote
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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. View quote
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. View quote
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. View quote
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. View quote
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. View quote
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently. (Anatole France)
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. View quote
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. View quote
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. View quote
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Our passions are ourselves. View quote
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