Anatole France Quotes

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• Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

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  Love, Inspiring, Dog

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Evil, Stupidity, Doe

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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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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  Peace, Anger, Sleep

  "The Red Lily". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

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  Beautiful, Nature, Journey

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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  Funny, Wisdom, Stupid

  "Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication". Book by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, 1954.

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• You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

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  Country, Thinking, Dying

  L'Humanité, July 18, 1922.

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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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  Teaching, Fire, Vanity

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• It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

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  Wisdom, Reality, Littles

  Anatole France (2016). “The Revolt of the Angels”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

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  Believe, Animal, Men

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• You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

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  Love, Relationship, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

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  Military, War, Patriotic

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• The more you say, the less they remember.

  Anatole France

  Remember

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• 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.

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  Life, Change, People Changing

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

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• The future is a convenient place for dreams.

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  Dream, Ignorance, Convenient

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• The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

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  Life, Men, Average

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• We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

  Anatole France

  Book, Devil, Stories

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• Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

  Anatole France

  Order, Dictionary, Alphabetical Order

  Anatole France (1924). “The Works of Anatole France”

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• The best sentence? The shortest.

  Anatole France

  Sentences

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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.

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  Education, Memories, Learning

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• It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

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  Wisdom, Math, Men

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• It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

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  Political, Poor, Forbidden

  Anatole France (2008). “Crainquebille”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

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  Positive, Encouraging, Education

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• America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

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  Law, America, Thanks

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• To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

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  Funny, Ideas, Atheism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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