Anatole France - The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.

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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

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Curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy. Those acquirements crammed by force into the minds of children simply clog and stifle intelligence. In order that knowledge be properly digested, it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

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All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

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

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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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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

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