| ANATOLE FRANCE |
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| (Jacques Anatole Thibault)
(1844-1924) |
| �A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.�
�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.� �If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.� �In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.� �It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.� �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.� �Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me.� �The average man who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.� �The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.� �The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.� �To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.� �When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it. Give references? Why should you? Either your readers know where you have taken the passage and the precaution is needless, or they do not know and you humiliate them.� |