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• A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

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  Happiness, Ignorance, Inner Peace

  Anatole France (1923). “The Works of Anatole France in English: The opinions of Jérôme Coignard”

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• Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• Change is the essence of life.

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  Essence, Essence Of Life

  Anatole France (1916). “Pierre Nozière”

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• We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

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  Women, Silence, Drug

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• We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

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  Clouds, Two, Forget

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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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  War, Men, Suffering

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• Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

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  Phrases, Ends, Caress

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• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

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  Time, Deals

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.86, Anatole France

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• People who don't count won't count.

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  Teacher, Math, People

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• The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

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  Funny, Book, Reading

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• If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

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  Deeds, Guilty, Cruelty

  Anatole France (2007). “The Red Lily”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC

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• The future is a convenient place for dreams.

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  Dream, Ignorance, Convenient

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

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  Motivational, Education, Book

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• Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

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  Order, Dictionary, Alphabetical Order

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

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• Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

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  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.36, Anatole France

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• The impotence of God is infinite.

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  God, Religious, Infinite

  Anatole France (1927). “The Works of Anatole France in English”

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• For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .

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  Long, People, Majority

  Anatole France (2016). “The Revolt of the Angels”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

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  God, Science, Names

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• What we call happiness is what we do not know.

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  Knows

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• Our passions are ourselves.

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  Passion

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.112, Delphi Classics

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• An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

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  Education, School, Mind

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

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  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.89, Anatole France

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• Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

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  Aberration, Literature, Chastity

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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.

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  Fate, Literature, Poverty

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