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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes
life
pleasurable; the other who cries, makes it sacred.
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human
life
is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to
life
, like bread and water.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this
life
, long for another that shall have no end.
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Penguinia gloried in its wealth. Those who produced the things necessary for
life
, wanted them; those who did not produce them had more than enough. "But these," as a member of the Institute said, "are necessary economic fatalities." The great Penguin people had no longer either traditions, intellectual culture, or arts. The progress of civilisation manifested itself among them by murderous industry, infamous speculation, and hideous luxury. Its capital assumed, as did all the great cities of the time, a cosmopolitan and financial character. An immense and regular ugliness reigned within it. The country enjoyed perfect tranquillity. It had reached its zenith.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! 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.
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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 into another!
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"It is not likely," remarked Joséphin Leclerc, "that the future will be such as you have seen it. I do not wish for the coming of socialism, but I dread it not. Collectivism at the helm would be quite another thing than is imagined. Who was it who said, carrying back his thoughts to the time of Constantine and of the Church's early triumphs : 'Christianity is triumphant, but its triumph is subject to the conditions imposed by
life
on all political and religious parties. All of them, whatever they may be, undergo so complete a transformation in the struggle that after victory there remains of themselves but the name and a few symbols of the last idea'?"
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of
life
, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Anatole France
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Born:
April 16, 1844
Died:
October 12, 1924
(aged 80)
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