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Anatole France
Anatole France
French Novelist
Born: Apr 16, 1844
Died: Oct 12, 1924
Good Life Man Never Think Will
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. Anatole France
Beautiful Path Beauty Leads Where Ask Us Let Us
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
Life Change Before Changes Melancholy Enter Ourselves Must Part Most Another Leave Die Behind Us Even
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. Anatole France
Equality Law Rich Steal Majestic Well Beg Bread Poor Bridges Streets Sleep
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. Anatole France
Education You Memory Able Between Know How How Much Committed Being Much Even Differentiate
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. Anatole France
Heart Mind Naive Well
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. Anatole France
Better Understand Misunderstand Lot Than Little
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
Work Love You Speak Way Run Running Study Studying Learn Same Just Loving To Love Working Speaking
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. Anatole France
Equality Law Face Rich Steal Majestic Well Beg Labour Bread Which Poor Bridges Streets Sleep
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France
Teacher Art Natural Young Minds Only Purpose Curiosity Afterwards Teaching Whole Awakening Satisfying
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. Anatole France
Life Truth Truth Is Sweet Everything Bitter Horrible Charming Delicious Frightful
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. Anatole France
Man Universe Harmony Once Between Existed Wandering Which Original
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. Anatole France
Conversation Madman Most His Frighten Us Sane
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. Anatole France
Good Nature Good And Evil Evil Distinction Between She Principles Makes
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France
Life Man Will Know Another Does Forever Wants Which Average Average Man Last
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Anatole France
Fashion Nature Human Nature Think Absurd Wisely Human Act
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. Anatole France
Acceptance Degree High Risk Constructing Neurosis Neurotic Devout Task Personal Against Them Spares Certain Illnesses Believers Universal
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France
Has-Been Take Well Said Been Thing Copy
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. Anatole France
Good Soul Relates Critic He Adventures Masterpieces His Who Among
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. Anatole France
Education Mind Will Does Cultivate Which
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole France
Ignorance Happy Some Except Price Never Person
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
Women Men Clothes Wear Only Never Like Women Are Not Interested Interested Notice Who
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. Anatole France
Life Will Know Another Short Short Life Want Which Eternal
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. Anatole France
Everybody Books Those Admires Nobody Reads

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