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Schriftsteller, "Die Insel der Pinguine", "Thais", Nobelpreis für Literatur/1921 (Frankreich, 1844 - 1924).

Anatole France · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Anatole France wäre heute 180 Jahre, 5 Monate, 27 Tage oder 65.924 Tage alt.

Geboren am 16.04.1844 in Paris
Gestorben am 12.10.1924 in La Béchellerie
Sternzeichen: ♈ Widder

• I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

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• If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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

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• In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

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• It is good to collect things; it is better to take walks.

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• It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

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• It is in human nature to think rationally and to act irrationally.

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• It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

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• It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

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• Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent to me.

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• Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

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• Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

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

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• Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

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• That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

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• The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts. They bravely unveil their weaknesses, their doubts, their defects. They are courageous. They boldly ride a-tilt against prejudices. No civil, moral nor immoral power overawes them. They love their fellow-men profoundly. They are generous. They allow their hearts to expand. They have compassion for all forms of suffering. Pity is the very foundation-stone of Genius.

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• The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul in the midst of masterpieces.

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• The law, in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread - the rich as well as the poor.

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• The rarest courage is the courage of thought.

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