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.
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Anatole France
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About Anatole France
Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament".
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Anatole FranceAn education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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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!
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.