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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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" 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. "

Anatole France

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You

" We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. "

" We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. "

" Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. "

" Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. "

" Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. "

" There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. "

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

" Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. "

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

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

" Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. "

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

" Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. "

" One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. "

Anatole France

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Above

" Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. "

Anatole France

Clothes

Men

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

" Silence is the wit of fools. "

" 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. "

Anatole France

Change

Changes

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

" What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! "

" 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. "

Anatole France

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Library

" The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. "

" Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. "

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

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

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

" The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. "

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

" Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. "