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• The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

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  Inspirational

  "The works of Anatole France in an English translation".

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• For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.

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  Ignorance, Blessing, Men

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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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• It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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  Motivational, Crazy, Life Changing

  Anatole France (1923). “The Works of Anatole France in English: My friend's book”

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Law, Long, Unjust

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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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• Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

  Anatole France

  Order, Dictionary, Alphabetical Order

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The future is a convenient place for dreams.

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  Dream, Ignorance, Convenient

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• People who don't count won't count.

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  Teacher, Math, People

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

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  Knows

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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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• 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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• What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

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  Past, Men, Civilization

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