To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Hope
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Quotes by Anatole France
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Wisdom
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.
Love
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Wisdom
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Wisdom
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Wisdom
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.
Life
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.
Education
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Love
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Wisdom
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Wisdom
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Wisdom
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Truth
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Life
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Happiness
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Courage
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Love
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Wisdom
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Wisdom
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Wisdom
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Truth
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Wisdom
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